jammer24m:If the girls want to stand in the audience and wave there signs, have at it. I dont care, that's an individual expressing her beliefs.... BUT.. When its a school sponsored even and cheerleaders and waving the sign to the audience THAT is a violation of the law... If these cheerleaders waved signs quoting Buddha the crowd would go apeshiat... The law is not to protect the majority, its to protect the minority...

For those people who aren't familiar with the passage (Most of the Bible Beaters you meet....)5 "And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

8 "Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

For those people who aren't familiar with the passage (Most of the Bible Beaters you meet....)5 "And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

8 "Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

Mark 16:15....

I'm not a believer, but there's a difference between praying and spreading the "good word".

hinten:There are very few things that I find more obnoxious than religious US High School kids. Take all the attitude, rightitude, misdirectitude, stupititude that US teenagers bring to the table and mix it up with a sense of religiousitude and you get a horrible, horrible concoction.

Ah, yes. . . . I remember them well from my own High School Days. They were the ones always criticizing the lack of "school spirit" in others, if memory serves.

When are these farking morons ever going to learn? A public HS football game is an officially sponsored school event conducted on public property. The courts have been unequivocal about this: Not no, but hell no!

If the cheerleaders want to talk about Jesus while they are blowing football players in the back seats of cars, that's their right. But keep both activities away from the school please. It really isn't hard. Making a public show of loving Jesus does not a better Christian make. In fact, Jesus spoke against public displays of piety.

As an atheist, I say meh... This is trivial crap for anyone to care about... How are a bunch of cheerleaders waving religious banners a government endorsement of religion? Especially when we've apparently all decided that our money having "In God we trust" written on it, and having "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is not a government endorsement of religion... (And, no, those don't really bother me much, either...) Hell, I wouldn't even care if it were teachers and the principal waving the farking banners... As long as they aren't forcing everyone to do so against their will, who gives a shiat? The atheist kids will feel "uncomfortable" not fitting in? Give me a break... They better get used to it, because that's life as an atheist... If you want to fit in, pretend to believe the same bullshiat as the rest of the in-crowd... Don't worry, most of them don't really believe it either, they're just going along to fit in, too...

For those people who aren't familiar with the passage (Most of the Bible Beaters you meet....)5 "And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

8 "Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

Mark 16:15....

I'm not a believer, but there's a difference between praying and spreading the "good word".

You are absolutely right.

If they are "only praying", then they are gross hypocrites for praying in public.

If they are trying to spread the "good word" then they are using public resources to do it, which is in direct violation of the first amendment.

Should they run any slogan against all religious texts of all time to make sure they in no way reference religion?

No, that would also violate the establishment clause. The government is supposed to be silent with respect to religion.

If the cheerleaders were fans sitting in the stands who brought their own home written signs to the game, there would be no problem. The problem is that as cheerleaders for the team, their actions can be viewed as endorsed by the school, and thus the government.

cynicalbastard:Suggested passage:"And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward."

profplump:Pinko_Commie: LOL Whut? Is there a Federal Bureau of Handwritten Religious Signs who's giving them to cheerleaders?

Or are the Federal Cheerleaders?

Are state and local governments now allowed to endorse a religion?

Excuse my ignorance, but how is a Cheerleading squad at all related to state and local government? It seems like it is a personal choice of these cheerleaders to want to use signs with bible quotations on them. So unless there is some sort of government mandate saying that they must display religious quotations I do not see how this is government endorsement of religion in any way.